Kim "Chavi" wraps Dreamforce 2026: AI agents just getting started

Kim "Chavi" has published a three-day recap of Dreamforce 2026 in San Francisco, describing a mood of sweeping enthusiasm around artificial intelligence capabilities. Everyone she spoke with at the conference expressed amazement at what the technology can already do and an immediate urge to start companies, explore new directions and shape the near future. Her main takeaway: 2026 still marks only the starting line of the agentic AI era, not its maturity.

During the conference she met with Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, known as MK, Salesforce's president and CTO of product engineering and research. According to the report, MK shared how Agentforce, the company's agent platform, is already transforming workflows in healthcare and improving how medical teams operate. The two agreed to record a full interview soon, expected to expand on those clinical and operational applications.

She also recorded a video at the event with Mick Costigan, who leads the Salesforce Futures team. The conversation covered the near-term evolution of AI and the emergence of an agentic economy, in which autonomous agents perform tasks and communicate with each other on behalf of users and organizations. Costigan laid out the company's strategic vision for how large language models will become active infrastructure components rather than just response tools.

The writer notes that in-person meetings were the highlight: she met face to face with people she had wanted to know for a long time and renewed old connections, though she admits she did not manage to see everyone she had hoped to. After the conference she is flying back to Germany for just three days, and on Monday returns to San Francisco for another event described as "very exciting," with details to follow.